Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 08:26:55 +0800 (CCT) From: Ronald Wiplinger <ronald@linkou.trace.com.tw> To: Verdell hicks <verdell@novalink.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Name Server Q Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961122082458.22438A-100000@linkou.trace.com.tw> In-Reply-To: <3294DE17.252A@novalink.com>
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On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Verdell hicks wrote: > Using Named I have CNAME entries which map to an actual entry, ie > > somename A 192.168.12.234 > news CNAME loki > > So at this point in time somename.novalink.com is 192.168.12.234 and > news.novalink.com is an alias that points to somename.novalink.com. > If you nslookup either name it hits back with the correct IP address. > Problem, How do you get it to respond with both names if you nslookup > the IP address. Currently it only comes back with the actual machines > name and no alias. This is a problem beacause our reverse lookup file > can have only one reverse entry in per ip number. So it reads like this > > 234 IN PTR somename.novalink.com. > > If i put in > > 234 IN PTR somename.novalink.com. > 234 IN PTR news.novalink.com. > > it only responds with the first entry. That is true and correct! If you don't like it, setup another machine! where you get a new rev entry. At least DNS book (O'Reilly) does not give you a better solution either. > > so when you look up 192.168.12.234 it comes back with > somename.novalink.com, but I need it to come back with both > somename.novalink.com and news.novalink.com. Any help would be > appreciated. All of of our CNAME entries are having this problem in > that only name maps to the ip the ip maps only to the real machine name. > > Verdell Hicks > Systems Administration > Novalink USA > verdell@novalink.com >
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